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Forget Doggie Doors: Home Remodel Has Canine Staircase

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Stairs & Cases & in the Interiors category ]

Some dogs seem completely comfortable bounding up and down human-scale steps, but it is clear that others prefer the longer treads of some public staircases.

For these pet lovers in Ho Chi Minh City, a renovation by 07Beach became an opportunity to go a step beyond dog doors or built-in beds. Instead, their remodel features a full-length, dog-friendly staircase, complete with railing.

Because this move necessitated a longer stairwell, the thin dog-oriented one wraps further into and around the living room, making it nice and each for pet pooches to make their way along its winding path.

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Leaning Chair Uses 2 Vertical Legs + 2 Horizonal Supports

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Furniture & in the Chairs category ]

The first thing that most chairs start with is four legs – or at least three. Two is just never enough, or so the thinking goes … until one takes a cue from increasingly-popular, wall-leaning, two-legged bookcases, anyway.

An Lena is an attempt to challenge a basic principle of chair design, utilizing a wall and rubber friction grips to provide another form of support augmented by weight and gravity of someone sitting.

Via MocoLoco: “Simone Harbert created her An Lena chair as part of Parasites & Hybrids, a student exhibition at the Burg Giebichenstein College of Art and Design in Germany. The piece is a parasitic prototype, which cleverly supports itself by gripping into the masonry work of the walls it leans against. Harbert’s idea is that with lightweight and mobile furniture, urban landscapes can quickly be transformed into community spaces.”